Innovation activities are actions intended to generate innovations, and innovations are novel, implemented items or actions, that improve processes. The research on enabling innovation activities in public hospitals is limited. This study identified key factors that enable innovation activities by combining statements made by representatives from management (n = 13) and personnel (n = 9) at one Finnish public university hospital. The study used semi-structured interviews and content analysis. According to the results, unified and authorised practices are needed to counterbalance and organise the extreme complexity typical of public hospitals. Both, hospital personnel and management called for assistance with complementary expertise in innov...
Background: The more varied and new challenges that the healthcare sector faces every day, calls for...
Background: In recent years, Sweden, together with the rest of the world, has faced an increased dem...
Describes how the National Health Service management has responded to pressure for change as a “crit...
The health sector is today facing many challenges, requiring a need for capabilities in managing inn...
Innovation at the hospital as a change in the delivery of patient-focused health services by encoura...
Background: The healthcare sector is facing challenges to meet growing demand with limited resources...
Abstract: Innovation is essential for the competitiveness and survival of organizations; in this sen...
This paper aims to improve the understanding of the role of hospitals in the generation of innovatio...
Background: There is a growing expectation that many health organisations will implement innovations...
Norwegian hospitals are challenged by demographic changes, an increasingly complex clinical picture ...
This article offers an organisational perspective on innovation in healthcare. It suggests that heal...
The report sheds light to the role of knowledge-intensive service activities (KISA) in developing th...
This paper aims to improve understanding of the role of hospitals in the generation of innovations. ...
In this publication the review of the literature points to the four main directions of research rela...
Background: This paper presents an Organisational Behaviour perspective of organisational factors in...
Background: The more varied and new challenges that the healthcare sector faces every day, calls for...
Background: In recent years, Sweden, together with the rest of the world, has faced an increased dem...
Describes how the National Health Service management has responded to pressure for change as a “crit...
The health sector is today facing many challenges, requiring a need for capabilities in managing inn...
Innovation at the hospital as a change in the delivery of patient-focused health services by encoura...
Background: The healthcare sector is facing challenges to meet growing demand with limited resources...
Abstract: Innovation is essential for the competitiveness and survival of organizations; in this sen...
This paper aims to improve the understanding of the role of hospitals in the generation of innovatio...
Background: There is a growing expectation that many health organisations will implement innovations...
Norwegian hospitals are challenged by demographic changes, an increasingly complex clinical picture ...
This article offers an organisational perspective on innovation in healthcare. It suggests that heal...
The report sheds light to the role of knowledge-intensive service activities (KISA) in developing th...
This paper aims to improve understanding of the role of hospitals in the generation of innovations. ...
In this publication the review of the literature points to the four main directions of research rela...
Background: This paper presents an Organisational Behaviour perspective of organisational factors in...
Background: The more varied and new challenges that the healthcare sector faces every day, calls for...
Background: In recent years, Sweden, together with the rest of the world, has faced an increased dem...
Describes how the National Health Service management has responded to pressure for change as a “crit...